Non-invasive and noise-robust light focusing using confocal wavefront shaping

Dror Aizik () and Anat Levin
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Dror Aizik: Technion
Anat Levin: Technion

Nature Communications, 2024, vol. 15, issue 1, 1-8

Abstract: Abstract Wavefront-shaping is a promising approach for imaging fluorescent targets deep inside scattering tissue despite strong aberrations. It enables focusing an incoming illumination into a single spot inside tissue, as well as correcting the outgoing light scattered from the tissue. Previously, wavefront shaping modulations have been successively estimated using feedback from strong fluorescent beads, which have been manually added to a sample. However, such algorithms do not generalize to neurons whose emission is orders of magnitude weaker. We suggest a wavefront shaping approach that works with a confocal modulation of both the illumination and imaging arms. Since the aberrations are corrected in the optics before the detector, the low photon budget is directed into a single sensor spot and detected with high signal-noise ratio. We derive a score function for modulation evaluation from mathematical principles, and successfully use it to image fluorescence neurons, despite scattering through thick tissue.

Date: 2024
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